Entry Description: The project is a small house built in a residential area
near Omiya station in Saitama. Two 50m2 floors are cross
over in two levels on a site that measures around 100
m2. Each level is quartered, two opposing floors of which
are elevated. The eaves surrounded at the middle of the
ceiling height of the other two floors intertwine with the
elevated floors, creating a space characterized by a
complex network. The elevated floors of the two levels
continue to a diagonal wall, as well as to the floors
above. The floors branch out again to continue above,
staggering against the exterior eaves to compose a
uniquely intricate elevation. This complicated structural
logic is applied not just in the elevation but throughout
the interior space as well, where the floors themselves
entwine diagonally, with a void that looks out to the
opposing space created at the center of this complicated
floor. Although this opposing space seen from the void
appears to continue visually, one can only arrive at it by
traveling through the complicated levels, and taking a
drastic detour after moving to a different floor. While
visually adjacent, the flow is one that requires a long
traveling distance. The commonly understood three
dimensional depth and the sense of distance are being
disturbed, creating architectural spaces where various
distances become complicated, much like what is
happening in infospheres like the internet. This
architecture realizes such network–type spaces, where
various distances become increasingly complex, as
a “network of complex levels” in which multiple levels are
networked and layered over one another. Our hope is
that this complex, layered network space will become a
new architectural form that captures the various activities
borne out of today’s informational society, where diversity
and order are being demanded at the same time.

About the Designer/Company
1976 Born in Tokyo
1995-1999 KEIO University Faculty of Environmental Information
1999-2001 Graduate School of KEIO University Architecture and Urban Design Course
2001-2002 Researcher of Graduate School of KEIO University Architecture and Urban Design Course
2002-2003 Dispatched Representative of Cultural Agency of Japanese Government (Residence staff as architect on MVRDV architects in Netherland)
2004-2005 Shigeru Ban Architects in Tokyo Japan
2006-- Yuusuke Karasawa Architects (Representative)
2012-- Assistant Professor of Architecture and Building Engineering,Faculty of Science and Technology,Tokyo University of Science.